Maryland is About to Unleash Distributed Batteries

Maryland Energy Talk · Sep 21, 2026 · 50m

Thanks to the Utility Relief Act of 2026 and the Next Generation Energy Act of 2026 the Public Service Commission is currently running a utility scale battery procurement that could build roughly 900 megawatts of battery storage. That is great news, and it has gotten a lot of attention, but there is another, lesser known process unfolding in Maryland with the potential to unlock gigawatts of battery capacity.

This effort stems from the fact that batteries weren’t really available when the policies governing our electric grid were put in place, and as a result, our cost allocation systems…